Biography

Michael J. Scott has joined the ensemble of Deutsche Oper Berlin where he will sing NORMANNO Lucia di Lammermoor, MAESTRO TRABUCO La Forza del Destino, HEXE Hänsel und Gretel, AEGISTH Elektra, ERSTER JUDE Salome and ANTIKRIST Der Mund, der große Worte spricht.

Other recent engagements include SACERDOTE Idomeneo and MINOS in Howard Moody’s Solar (World Premiere) La Monnaie, ŠAPKIN From the House of the Dead, CASCA in Battistelli’s Julius Caesar (World Premiere) and ERSTER JUDE Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, SCRIBE Khovanschina,HOST OF THE BALL/ VESTOVOJ/IVANOV War and Peace and ERSTER JUDE Grand Théâtre de Genève, ZWEITE JUDE Salome Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden and London Symphony Orchestra, DER OFFIZIER Reimann’s Ein Traumspiel Oper Halle, and

Past work includes LOGE Der Ring des Nibelungen and AHAB Elias Theater an der Wien, LIPPO FIORENTINO Street Scene Teatro Real, Madrid, POLICEMAN/OLD MAN/STUDENT The Nose Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden, SPOLETTA Tosca Nationale Reisopera, TITORELLI/FLOGGER/STUDENT Glass’ The Trial Theater Magdeburg. and ERSTER JUDE Teatro Comunale di Bolzano, Teatro Comunale di Modena and Teatro Municipale di Piacenza. As a member of the Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp roles included SLIMBROEK Der Schmied von Gent, MARQUIS The Gambler, MALCOLM Macbeth, KOMMISSAR CLEMENS Les Bienveillantes (World Premiere), FATTY Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, MONOSTATOS Die Zauberflöte, SOPEL Sadko, SYPHAX Der König Kandaules, SCRIBE Khovanshchina, TATTERED PEASANT Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk, ERSTER GEHARNISCHTER Die Zauberflöte, and HAUSHOFMEISTER Der Rosenkavalier.

Michael has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Masters from the Royal College of Music. He was a member of the first-ever Royal College of Music team that competed on BBC’s University Challenge.